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+ 1ST POEMS: Yet This Final Measure, 05, Thesis I Wish I Had Written In My Undergraduate Senior Year
From the Nile to the Tiber River,
Kaisarion had traveled. Not a taker but a giver,
(unlike his ruthless cousin, Octavian),
no power was sought by Kaisarion---
only a passion for Greek Poetry
unprejudiced and without hesitancy---
and a desire to understand his time's Astronomy.
Octavian sought the young man's death, or jailed behind bars;
and never understood how his stepfather, Antony,
had arranged escape to a shelter of utmost security,
where Kaisarion studied certain love poems, and the stars---
one of which sent him, and two others, to Palestine and Jerusalem,
and to a child then resident in Bethlehem.
Kaisarion's pilgrimage became, later, famous in History.
